Remember the Australian cricketer Shane Warne? Remember how blokey and beery and one of the carefree lads he was? A proper man’s man? Well, he’s only gone and been snared by a posh Pommy Sheila who’s turned him into a bloody pooftah! Or at least this was the drift of… Read More »Shane Warne Comes Out Looking Pretty
Last Saturday’s The London Times Magazine ran an extract from ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt’, a memoir by Jon-Jon Goulian ‘the New York Review of Books first cross-dressing staffer’. I haven’t read it yet, but the extract inclined me to do so very soon. Here’s Goulian on the semantics of earrings in the… Read More »The Earring Wars are Over
101 shirtless, hairless pairs of perfect pecs stop the traffic on Champs Elysees. All part of a shameless, highly successful ploy by Abercrombie & Fitch to draw attention to their new flagship store opening in Paris. Back in Bushy, anti-American 2007, when A&F opened their London store I wrote about… Read More »Paris Attacked By Army of Aberzombies – Surrenders Instantly
Much-loved British heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper died this week. Unborn in 1963, the year he nearly defeated Cassius Clay (the Brits love near-winners much more than winners), I remember him mostly for the curious Brut TV commercials he did in the 1970s that helped usher in the world of male… Read More »Henry Finally Throws in the Towel
There are now so many ‘grooming’ – i.e. male beauty – products on the market in the US they’ve begun to introduce entire aisles in supermarkets devoted to men’s tartiness. Even in Texas. Shoppers will find “more than 530 grooming products, including razors that sculpt beards, two shelves stocked with… Read More »The Men’s Zone: Where Guys Can Feel Pretty